A Formal Graphical Language of Interdependence in Teamwork

Changyun Wei; Koen V. Hindriks; M. Birna Van Riemsdijk; Catholijn M. Jonker

doi:10.1109/MIS.2019.2942580

A Formal Graphical Language of Interdependence in Teamwork

Changyun Wei, Koen V. Hindriks, M. Birna Van Riemsdijk, Catholijn M. Jonker

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Agents in teamwork may be highly interdependent on each other, and the awareness of interdependences is an important requirement for designing and consequently implementing a multiagent system. In this article, we propose a formal graphical and domain-independent language that can facilitate the identification of comprehensive interdependences among the agents in teamwork. Moreover, a formal semantics is also introduced to precisely express and explain the properties of a graphical structure. The novel feature of the graphical language is that it complements the Interdependence Analysis Color Scheme in a way that explicitly models negative influences and, in addition, provides a visual-communication aid for developers. To demonstrate the applicability and sufficiency of the graphical language in a variety of domains, our case studies include a multirobot scenario and a human-robot scenario.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	25-34
Number of pages	10
Journal	IEEE Intelligent Systems
Volume	34
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MIS.2019.2942580
Publication status	Published - 19 Sept 2019

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This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61703138 and in part by the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province under Grant BK20170307.

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National Natural Science Foundation of China	61703138
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province	BK20170307
Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province

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